The wait is finally over as the new Williston, North Dakota, Menards Mega Store prepares to open on Wednesday, September 9, 2015. Last year Williston Mayor Howard Klug expressed his excitement for the project, telling the Williston Herald, “This is kind of like our field of dreams. If you build it they will come.” The Menards will be one of ...

MEDORA, N.D. — Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the city of Medora are hosting an astronomy festival this month. The park in western North Dakota has scheduled the third annual Dakota Nights Astronomy Festival for Sept. 11-13. This year’s guest speakers are Craig Howe, who is the director of the South Dakota-based Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies, ...

WILLISTON, N.D. — The Highway Patrol has identified a man who died while operating a compacting machine in a construction zone on a Williams County road. Authorities say 63-year-old Stephen Smith, of Williston, drove the vehicle too close to the edge of the roadway, and it slid into the ditch and rolled. The Williston Herald reports Smith died at the ...

FARGO, N.D. — A member of the state Board of Higher Education says he mulling over a measure that would refund fees to Williston State College students. Some lawmakers were surprised to learn that the college in the North Dakota oil patch raised its mandatory fees by nearly 60 percent and its room and board by more than 25 percent. ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The National Weather Service is forecasting more hot temperatures across the Dakotas on Thursday. The Weather Service’s Bismarck office says Williston, North Dakota, reached 100 degrees on Wednesday, breaking the record of 99 for this day set in 1901. The heat index, which takes into account humidity, is expected to reach 100 in some areas on ...

WILLISTON, N.D. – Nearly half of the hotel rooms in the epicenter of North Dakota’s energy boom have been sitting empty this year, yet another sign that plunging oil prices have cooled the economy of the second-largest crude producing U.S. state. Producers, oilfield service providers and other energy companies across the state’s western oil patch have cut employee hours, canceled ...

WILLISTON, N.D. — The Highway Patrol says a man operating a compacting machine in a construction zone on a Williams County road died in a mishap. Authorities say the 63-year-old man drove the vehicle too close to the edge of the roadway, and it slid into the ditch and rolled. The man died at the scene about 15 miles northwest ...

WILLISTON, N.D. — A shelter for victims of domestic violence or sexual assault in Williston is planning to more than double its size. The Family Crisis Shelter has purchased land to expand facilities after five years of searching, the Williston Herald reported. Plans for the land were approved earlier this month at a Williston Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, despite ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — An Idaho man who once won a battle against the federal government in the U.S. Supreme Court is now going to federal prison for sex trafficking in North Dakota. The Bismarck Tribune reports that 48-year-old Michael Sackett, of Priest Lake, Idaho, pleaded guilty Monday to a sex trafficking charge and was sentenced to a year and a ...

Last year at this time my office received dozens of phone calls and emails asking about ‘Boomtown’ and what’s really going on in Williston, North Dakota. Now we get calls asking about ‘the bust’ and what’s it like in Williston. After I slowly put down the phone and back away from the keyboard, I take a breath and just smile. ...

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